Alphaville house is located in Salvador/Bahia in Brazil. It is inserted within a gated community, next to a great area of protected Atlantic forest, which had influenced the whole design process.
Many of my clients are rethinking the way they use their garages after spending more time at home over the last few years. During the height of the pandemic, garages were used as art studios, home gyms and classrooms. Now many people want to upgrade t…
In the city center of Renens, halfway between forest and urban density, the aforementioned project brings together several intergenerational and multifunctional programs, such as a kindergarten, a concert hall, and family gardens. The newly erected timber frame building is dedicated to early childhood care and education, while the barn has been completely renovated in order to create a new space for social and cultural use.
the extensive renovation and extension will transform the 1925 building into a vibrant and accessible music center for the community.
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dubbed the ‘cockaigne of everyman’, the revived barnyard symbolizes a harvest that never ends.
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the project proposes replacing part of the aggregates which are typically used in construction, with ground-up solid urban waste like crushed glass and plastic.
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In between the Garraf Nature Park and its beach lies a home that, courtesy of the area’s hilly terrain, offers a view of the coast and the Mediterranean Sea. The structure dates to the 1960s and originally contained two floors and a rooftop addition, accessible via an outdoor spiral staircase. The building, whose original shape had been deformed by a series of small additions, was in a general state of disrepair as a result of deficient maintenance, and the pool was poorly connected to the rest of the property, rendering it difficult to use.
Last Tuesday, March 15, Francis Kéré became the first African architect to win the Pritzker Prize, the most important award in the architecture discipline.
In recent years, there has been an increased focus on indoor lighting, especially in the context of the growing numbers of open-plan offices. In large parts of the world—and especially in Nordic countries—people can spend up to 80-90% of their time indoors. The light we are surrounded by affects both our circadian rhythm and hormones, making our indoor environment and its light an important factor of our well-being. Opinions on the optimal indoor lighting solution—and if one exists at all—are numerous and divided. To gain some more insight into this, the Danish lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen set out to test the effects of various artificial lighting conditions in their own head office in Copenhagen.
The 60th edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano 2022, which will take place from the 7th till the 12th of June 2022 at the Fiera Milano Rho, is reflecting on the ongoing ecological transition of the design world, with a mission to “demonstrate that it is both possible and crucial to start embedding sustainability and environmental awareness into furniture production”. More than 2,000 exhibitors, including over 600 young designers under the age of 35, will express their own identities and creative freedom, using the exhibition space as both an architectural and communication element with sustainability and ecology as main criteria.
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